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Bob King

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Dad. Husband. Kent State University Professor of English. Poetry collection “And & And” out in August 2024. "And/Or" forthcoming in September 2025. bobking.org

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Home | Stanchion Stanchion Lit Zine is an exciting new quarterly literary zine and photography zine printed on elegant paper.

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31.07.2025 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@stanchion.bsky.social 19 is now shipping & it's a pretty amazing issue. Here's the start of my poem that's included--to read the rest, follow the link in the comments. Thank you to the editors & other poets, writers, & artists.

31.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

:) Pre-order time!

11.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, @dishsoapquart.bsky.social!

10.06.2025 19:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
And/Or by Bob King – Finishing Line Press

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24.05.2025 10:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Friends! My second poetry collection is now on pre-sale & is due out end of September from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social!

They are a wild ride, the poems, & include a few prize-nominated pieces (including the one attached). Thank you to Jessica Jones & Ankit Raj Ojha for the generous blurbs.

24.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Blog - Cuyahoga County Public Library

In these final days of National Poetry Month, I'm grateful to Diane Kendig & Cuyahoga County Public Library for featuring my poem "Nine Weeks In" on today's READ + WRITE POETRY BLOG. You can read it here.

cuyahogalibrary.org/blog/poetry/...

28.04.2025 12:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's my wife's birthday & I got her some poetry--thanks to the wonderful Editor Jaime Alejandro @artscalling.com No. 10 is live & I'm grateful to have 3 pieces back at the coalition.

03.04.2025 12:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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vol 6 i.1 - Ink In Thirds “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming” —Victor Hugo.   Come explore vol 6, i.1...

Super excited to have a new poem (Here Were the First Flower People—Will You Be a Flower Person?) out in @inkinthirds.bsky.social Spring Equinox issue. Check out the entire, fabulous issue. Thank you, Editors!

inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-1/

20.03.2025 13:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 inkinthirds.org/book-review-... 𝘼𝙣𝙙 & 𝘼𝙣𝙙 by Bob King seems to pull inspiration from every facet of his life. The references range from classics like Chekov to more contemporary media, like Pokemon. @KingRobertJ

New book each month!

02.03.2025 17:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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And & And - King - Ink In Thirds Book Review And & And by Bob King seems to pull inspiration from every facet of his life. The references range from classics like Chekov to Pokemon...

Many thanks to C.W. Bryan & Grace Black for this generous book review & conversation up @inkinthirds.bsky.social. Please check it out.

(And you can get the book on all bookstore platforms.)

inkinthirds.org/book-review-...

02.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poets, if you’re not already working with Grace & her awesome editors @inkinthirds.bsky.social, you need to be: ink, poetry, wildflower seeds, & brilliant human touches in an era that needs all of these things. ✌🏼🌻

26.02.2025 14:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you to the fabulous editors for including two of my pieces in this brilliant inaugural issue. A wonderful collection, Charlie & Bella! Very grateful.

22.02.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pizza with whole chicken and pepperoni on one side and chocolate and M&Ms on the other side

Pizza with whole chicken and pepperoni on one side and chocolate and M&Ms on the other side

Them:

Your manuscript should be cohesive and make sense as a complete book

My Manuscript:

19.02.2025 02:07 — 👍 69    🔁 12    💬 6    📌 2
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Grateful to have a new poem up at a new literary magazine:

Waffle Fried Issue #1: Longing.

Available on Amazon.
Thank you to the fabulous editors!

15.02.2025 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bob King | Ink Sweat and Tears

Very appreciative of In Ink Sweat & Tears for hosting my poem, "You Know What 9am Feels Like, Right? Like, If Your Watch & All Clocks—Suddenly Worldwide—Disappeared, You’d Still Know What 9am Feels Like, Right?"

inksweatandtears.co.uk/bob-king-2/?...

08.02.2025 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes I Feel Like an Explorer During | Copihue Poetry A multilingual mag publishing poetry that moves beyond the imaginary borders of language, state, & culture.

Very grateful to have “Sometimes I Feel Like an Explorer During the Age of Discovery” & “Stephen Jay Gould’s Peripatetic Circus” (reprint) in Copihue Poetry, Volume 4. Enjoy!

www.copihuepoetry.com/sometimes-i-...

02.02.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Poetry by Bob King Nicholas Erwin   CC What It Takes to Solve a Crossword Puzzle I don’t know. Seriously, I don’t let myself do crosswords because my day disappears when I can’t come up with the...

Grateful to be included in Issue 36 of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social ! Thank you to the entire AHC team, especially James Diaz. Click through to read, "What It Takes to Solve a Crossword Puzzle," as well as work from outstanding artists around the globe.

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10.12.2024 12:33 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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When the close of another semester coincides with a Billy Collins reading in Cleveland.

03.12.2024 14:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And & And|Hardcover

Gratitude = first poetry collection published August 30, 2024. Cover art by CLE area artist Megan Frankenfield. That's the Cleveland skyline--as if viewed through old factory windows--in the central lime green panels.

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27.11.2024 13:06 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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And & And|Hardcover

Hi Matt. What a great idea.

Here you go. And the cover art is by Megan Frankenfield, CLE Artist.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-and-bo...

27.11.2024 12:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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If you’ve not read Patrick Radden Keefe, start with the Sackler/opioid book, then the Snakehead/immigration book, then Say Nothing. And THEN watch the Hulu Series. More & more, short series prove a better medium to adapt books than do movies.

(Say Nothing: 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing)

21.11.2024 02:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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